monday, april 16, 1979
daily nebraskan
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. Vm writing this letter for all undergraduates who are
fed up. with the study conditions that are presently
offered at the Law Library. I see no reason why all stu
dents of the UNL system should not be allowed to use
these study facilities to the fullest extent. It seems totally
ridiculous that the library, staff has to call the police in
order to have a student removed from the upper level of
this library. It Is especially absurd because the upper level
was only 20 percent full at the time.
I agree wholeheartedly that the law students should
have the right to privacy and quiet study in the Law
Library. However, the question still remains: Is the build
m their library alone? Is not this building a part of the
UNL system and If so Isn't it partially paid for and
funded by ajl student fees?
It seems like such a total waste that an excellent
facility such as the Law Library should not be used to the
fullest.
Many nights the library is only partially filled on the
upper level, yet the undergraduate area is packed full with
students. If a law student needs my seat, I would be more
than happy to give it to him. If, on the other hand, the
upper level is not full, then please let me use the area so
that I can get my work done also.
Maybe the undergraduates on this campus have no
right to use this library. If this is the case then I stand to
be corrected. If this is not the case then let's see if the
rules concerning this matter can be reevaulated in the
hope that all students can have an equal right to the use of
this building.
Mike Hansen
Junior
Business
Energy choices
This editorial is intended to be neither pro nor con,
only to illuminate some aspects of power production. The
power difference between coal, nuclear, natural gas, and
solar power plants is the method of boiling the turbine
water. Thermal pollution, a product of cooling the turbine
after water, occurs in all power plants regardless of the
heat source. Coal power requires strip mining and then
produces toxic by-products after burning the coal, which
degrades the ecology.
Natural gas is clean and efficient; however, supplies
cannot keep up with demands. Nuclear plant wastes were
to .be regenerated and reused, but economics dictated
otherwise and those highly toxic' wastes are buried.
Solar-powered turbine plants require one square mile
with 20,000 mirrors to produce 100 megawatts. To pro
duce the same amount of energy as a nuclear plant.
(1000 megawatts) 10 square miles of area, about the size
of Lincoln, would be filled with mirrors. Interrupted
service and maintenance costs make solar power economi
cal only on small scales.
Nuclear plants are an economic necessity that cost
$100,000 per day when a Nebraska plant shuts down and
will cost Nebraskans about $1 million per day to buy
power if the plants were closed. Conservation, even to the
point of altering our lifestyle, and alternative fuel sources
will not replace nuclear plants, only lower their numbers.
If experts cannot be trusted, as Senator Fowler said in
Monday's Daily Nebraskan, who can be trusted? Politici
ans? No wonder many people have bad concepts of higher
education.
Mike Hammer
Senior
Civil Engineering
Marathoner . . .
Continued from page 4
For the moment, Rodgers is thinking about the heat
that might hit Boston on Patriot's day. In 1976, the
theromometer reached almost 100 degrees, the hottest
Boston in 67 years. Although Rodgers frets about his in
ability to run well when it's past 70 degrees, he may have
little more than a mild case of the worries.
Last August, Rodgers ran against a world-class field on
a scorching day in a 7.1 -mile road race in Falmouth, Mass.
He blazed the first two miles in 8:49 arid the third in
4:31 . By five miles, only Alverto Salazar, the 1978 NCAA
cross-country champion, was with him. Rodgers turned it
on and finished with a course record 32:21 .
The sun burned with such fever that Salazar, 59
seconds behind at the finish, had to be hauled off to the
hospital with heatstroke. They gave him IVs and he
recovered.
Since then, Rodgers is the only runner in American
who says he can't run in the heat. And nobody believes
him.
Copyright Washington Post Company, 1 979
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